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Posts Tagged: Leaving the Witness

A Vocabulary for Apostates

By Daniel Allen Cox

May 5th, 2020

I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.

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Tags: Amber Scorah, Apocalypse, armageddon, children, climate crisis, coming out, Crisis of Conscience, cults, Daniel Allen Cox, death, disassociation, disfellowshipping, doomsday cult, doomsday cults, family, freedom of religion, grief, gus van sant, homophobia, homosexuality, hospital, hospitals, jehovah's witness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Joy Castro, Last Days, Leaving the Witness, LGBTQ, misogyny, mothers, nonbinary, parents, patriarchy, queer, queerness, Raymond Franz, religion, religious freedom, sexual abuse, stutter, The Truth Book, trans, Watch Tower, Watch Tower Society, What Belongs to You

What to Read When You’re Seeking a Family of Choice

By J. Ryan Stradal

July 12th, 2019

J. Ryan Stradal shares a reading list to celebrate his forthcoming novel, THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA.

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Tags: Amber Scorah, Andrea Dunlop, Anika Fajardo, Black Card, Bunny, Chris L. Terry, Erika Swyler, Hope Ewing, Interior States, J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, Leaving the Witness, Light from Other Stars, Magical Realism for Non-Believers, Meg Howrey, Meghan O'Gieblyn, Mona Awad, Movers and Shakers, rebecca makkai, The Great Believers, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, The Wanderers by Meg HowreyThe Wanderers, We Came Here to Forget, What to Read When

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